Pulitzer prize–winner Chris Hedges charts the dramatic and disturbing rise of a post-literate society that craves fantasy, ecstasy and illusion. Chris Hedges argues that we now live in two societies: One, the minority, functions in a print-based, literate world, that can cope with…

An inspired animation of Frida Kahlo’s famous portrait that was taken by her father, Guillermo Kahlo, in 1932 . The animation incorporates key images from her works that also defined her life as she depicted it on canvas. I had to have it.…

“Godzilla represents the complicity of mankind in its own destruction.” Godzilla does not feel emotion…Godzilla is emotion ~ Jun Fukuda, director Godzilla could not be defeated by the weapons that had brought the Japanese to their knees in WWII. ~Akira Ifukube, composer Source:…

Medieval Jewish music of Spain. Beautiful. Exotic to our ears, ethereal and rhythmic. [iframe width=”560″ height=”315″ src=”//www.youtube.com/embed/VW78hDmR0us?list=RDVW78hDmR0us” frameborder=”0″ allowfullscreen] Above is a long playlist of 26 pieces of Spanish Sephardic music. The first performances are by “Ensemble Fontegara”. They are period pieces featured at…

“…Art is not, like science, a logic of references but a release from reference and rendition of immediate experience; a presentation of forms, images, or ideas in such a way that they will communicate, not primarily a thought or even a feeling, but…

Joseph Emory Davis A word about an amazing man, Joseph Davis. His brother was Jefferson Davis, future President of the Confederacy. He had a plantation, owned slaves, and was successful. What is remarkable about Joseph Davis is that, despite his background and social…